Converting a CD/DVD programme to run from laptop HD

[tim0409]

Hi

Apologies for what may be a simple question (I use Macs not PC) but I have an old CD/DVD, which contains a really helpful workshop manual for my 2009 BMW motorbike and I would like to run it from my laptop without the need for an external player. I have a MacBook Air running Windows 10 in bootcamp, and have borrowed a DVD player to run the programme successfully. The disk contains an .exe file and numerous others. Is there a way of "saving" the disc contents to my hard drive so it could run directly from there without the need for an external drive?

Many thanks in advance.

[dundarach]

Create a .iso of the disk and then mount that.

Is the contents simply .pdf's if so, you might be able to mount and browse the contents from the mac side.

[Cloudy147]

As above, you need to create an ISO image of the disk, then you 'mount" that image when you want to use it. This makes Windows believe there is a cd in a drive.

The iso is effectively your cd, the drive is effectively some software called Daemon tools. It can both create the iso, and run the iso.

Here is a link to a guide, it's a very easy process...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/241047/how_to_crea...

[tim0409]

Many thanks for the helpful replies.

[beko1987]

Windows 10 natively mounts ISO's too now, so once youve created it your all set, it'll just sit in your My PC as a drive for whenever you want it (or you can mount/unmount it as needed)